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I wouldn't bet against the oldest and biggest CPU vendor. Atmel of Arduino fame had $1.4B in sales last year. Microchip who was the hobbyist's go to before the

I wouldn't bet against the oldest and biggest CPU vendor. Atmel of Arduino fame had $1.4B in sales last year. Microchip who was the hobbyist's go to before the Arduino had $2.1B in sales. Freescale who is the corporate descendant of Motorola microcontrollers had $4.6B. Intel had $55.9B in sales and $11.7B in profit - more then enough profit to buy every chip those other three companies made last year. Intel missed mobile - almost no cell phones have Intel inside - they are going to catch the next wave or die trying.

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joezydeco 11y ago
But, unlike the PC market with 2-3 major manufacturers, Intel can't bully around thousands of independent shops and OEMs that buy 1K/10K/100K quantities of Atmel/NXP/Freescale/Renesas/TI parts every year. I lead system architecture for one of them and Intel is so off my radar that I wouldn't even look twice at the Quark/Edison line. Unless they want to give them to me for free, that is. If those chips are their IoT play, I'm not seeing any advantage yet. Show me how you're going to complete with TI or Broadcom. And how many $3 D1000s do you have to move to match the margin generated by one server-class CPU core? (BTW, NXP bought Freescale earlier this year so it's really 4.6B + 5.6B once the merge is completed.)